Blogs from Attica, Greece, Europe - page 27

Geo: 37.9121, 22.9999 GÜN 20 GÜNLERDEN ÇARŞAMBA: Kahvaltımızı yapıp toparlandık ve tekrar Şahbaz' a (minibüsümüz ) kavuştuk..2 gündür yerinden kımıldamadığı için huzursuz… Sabah yoğun trafiğe ve MIO ( GPS) ya rağmen ,Yunan yol tabelalarına inat, Korinthos yoluna girdik.. Ağır aksak giderek 80 km sonra Korinth kanalına vardık. Korint Kanalı, Yunanistan´ın kuzey kara topraklarını, Mora Yarımadası´ndan (Yunanca: Peloponnesos) ayıran tümüyle yapay kanalın adıdır. Kanalı kazmak için Korint Kıstağı bölgesinin en ince yeri seçilmiştir. Yapımı 1881 ile 1893 yılları arasıdır. Uzunluğu yaklaşık 6,3 km´dir ve Korint Körfezi ile Saronik Körfezi´ni birbirine bağlar.(Ege Denizini, Adriyatik denizine ) Kanal 1893´den bugüne dek kullanılmakta olup, Adriyatik ve Ege Denizi arasında seyredecek gemiler için yaklaşık 400 km'lik tasarruf sağlamaktad... read more

Geo: 37.9792, 23.7166 GÜN 18 GÜNLERDEN PAZARTESİ: Çok rahat bir toparlanma sonunda ,bize ayrılmış devasa sahayı terkederek yola çıktık.. Son derece rahat bir yolculuktan sonra, Atina'ya vardık. Girişte, biraz pazartesi trafiği ....ama dert değil bizimkine oranla lafı olmaz… Otelimizi çabuk bulduk Yerleştik... Şahbazı (Minibüsümüz) kapının önüne park ettik. Öğlene doğru, yakında bulunan Omonia meydanında bir şeyler yiyelim dedik. Bir gürültü patırdı..... meydanın hemen yanında bir yürüyüş düzenleniyor .. Polis sadece yürüyüşçülere hangi sokaklara girebileceğini işaret ediyor .. Gaz yok …sopa yok ..ben ne anladım bu yürüyüşten .. Yunanlı gençler ,galiba işçiler ve emeklilerle birlikte efendi efendi yürüyorlar.. kusura bakmayın Yunanlı kardeşlerim ,ama haklı davanızı pek hissedemedim.. ... read more

Athens - Day 3 Tuesday 10th September We started off the day with a visit to the Temple of Zeus. This huge building has 15 of it's original 104 columns and took 750 years to complete. Good old Hadrian finished it off. I know all of this because Glyn read it to me from his guide book, because as per usual, there was no information on hand about it. Next we walked the short distance to the modern Acropolis Museum which has open bits in the floor that looks down into excavations of ancient stuff. There was also a cute tabby kitten opposite it. We had lunch in the museum cafe which was nice enough and not expensive. There was an outdoor area with a good view to the Acropolis. The cafe had free wifi so ... read more

Athens - Day 2 Monday 9th September The first cat of the day was spotted on the way to Kerameikos, near some hobos sleeping in a park. It didn't want to say hello. Kerameikos is an ancient cemetery that was bigged up in my guide book and also one of the big six that our tourist tickets got us into. It is amazing to know that this architecture is from the 12th century BC, but then again, you've seen one pile of rubble, you've seen them all really.... But there were remnants of pillars and rooms. We came across one tortoise head-butting another tortoise, he really was quite persistent. I didn't know tortoises could move so quickly and he was pushing the other one around a lot. I thought the other one was dead at first, ... read more

Athens - Day 1 Sunday 8th September We arrived at Athens airport at around 3am and took an hour long bus journey into the city centre which dropped us off opposite the Parliament building just as they were changing the guard. The marble pavement was wet - I thought it had been raining, it never occurred to me that it had just been cleaned. We went to a nearby taxi rank and a driver who already had two passengers told us to get in his cab. There wasn't enough room in the boot for everyone's luggage, but the driver had a bungee cord to tie it down half open. We didn't drive far before all the buildings were covered in graffiti - when I say covered I mean from ground level to as high as a ... read more